Bobbin holder



1953 J. 'MANZELLA 2,626,062

BOBBIN HoL R Filed April 50; 1951 Joseph Manzel/a uvvgszvrox.

Patented Jan. 20, 1953 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

The present invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in bobbin holders and has more particular reference to what is believed to be a simple and practical sewing machine accessory in which manufacturers and users will find their essential requirements fully met, contained and effectually available.

It is generally well known that tailors and sewing machine operators maintain numerous bobbins loaded with thread and that these are customarily kept in small tin boxes. Naturally, the threads often are left loose and become tangled together and considerable time is spent in searching for and picking out a bobbin with a thread of required shade or color. Therefore, one object of the present invention is to provide a single, simple holder which groups and displays and renders available a number of bobbins, often as many as fifteen bobbins. By adapting and using a holder of the type herein disclosed, the user will economize on working space and will save valuable time, energy and patience in that he will be able to maintain the bobbins in a systematic readily available condition. Whereas spool racks and stands are usually supplied by the tailors employer, the employee has to own his own tools including bobbins. Consequently, this unique bobbin holder functions as a worthy instrumentality which materially aids and assists the user in that the bobbins are handy and at the tailors fingertips and yet may be pushed out of the way when not needed.

One form of the invention has to do with a simple circular or equivalent base which is adaptedto rest on the sewing machine at the place wanted. This is provided with a plurality of circumferentially spaced vertically disposed pins and the bobbins are systematically stacked on the selected pins.

The base isjprovided with a center opening an the pins are preferably removable and an attachment is provided, which attachment comprises a revoluble disk, said disk having a trunnion and said trunnion turning in a bearing hole provided at the center of the base and said disk being provided with fixedly mounted bobbin racking pins.

Other objects and advantages will become more readily apparent from the following description and the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a, bobbin holder constructed in accordance with the principles of th present invention;

Figure 2 is a view partly in section and partly in elevation of the holder seen in Figure 1, the

section being on the plane of the line 2-2 -of Figure 3;

Figure 3 is a horizontal section on the plane of the line 3-3 of Figure 2, looking in the direction of the arrows, with the pins appearing in elevation; and

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the optionally usable rotary attachment for the base.

Reference is had first to the form of the invention revealed in Figures 1 to 3. Here the base is denoted by the numeral 6 and is circular in form and is made of wood, metal or commercial plastics of a suitable grade or kind. The top of the base is fiat and circular, as at 8, and is reduced in diameter to define an endless ledge H1. The underneath side of the base is of concave form, that is, formed with a shallow recess, as at I 2. The center of the base has a bearing hole M. The base is provided, in addition, with circumferentially spaced sockets iii to accommodate insertable and removable dowels or bobbin racking and stacking pins l8. These have their upper ends rounded, as at 20, to facilitate applying the bobbins (not shown). The pins l8 are optionally usable and are therefore insertable and removable. When all of the pins [8 are removed, the attachment, which is shown in Figure 4, comes into play, if desired. This is a revoluble bobbin holder and is denoted by the numeral 22 and comprises a fiat surfaced rotary disk 24. This resides in rotatable contact with the surface 8 and has a depending central stud which constitutes a trunnion or spindle 26 and the latter is fitted and turnable in the bearing l4. The racking pins are denoted by the numerals-28 and they correspond to the pins I8 but are integral with the disk 24.

It will be understood that this unique bobbin holder is successful and practical in that it holds an adequate supply of bobbins, anywhere from one to fifteen or more. This is because it is small and is not to be confused with larger spool holders, that is, spools which are wound with sewing thread. The problem of handling bobbins in association with the daily requirements of an operator of a sewing machine has always been considered but until the advent of this device, does not appear to have been adequately or satisfactorily solved. Here, then, is an economical, practical, simple and appropriate bobbin holder which, it is believed, solves the problem with due appropriateness.

It is thought that persons skilled in the art to which the invention relates will be able to obtain a clear understanding of the invention after considering the description in connection with the drawings. Therefore, a more lengthy description is regarded as unnecessary.

Minor changes in shape, size and arrangement of details coming within the field of invention claimed may be resorted to in actual practice, if desired.

Having described the claimed asnew is A bobbin holderofii the class described-comprising in combination a portable base adapted invention, what is to rest on a sewing machine at a convenient and rising from said base and located at circum ferentially spaced points, whereby bobbins may be systematically racked and held on said base by way of said pins, said base having a central bearing hole, and a flat top, said pins being readily applicable and removable, and-a rotary holder attachment for said base comprising a 4 disk which is applicable to said base after said pins have been removed, said disk being provided with a central spindle and also provided with upstanding bobbin racking pins.

JOSEPH MAN ZELLA.

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